For more than two years, Alan and Kirsty have been developing a highly sophisticated robot which closely mimics both the physical and intellectual properties of human beings.
After some false starts, they design and build two prototypes - Jack and Jill - and decide to test their credibility as human by visiting an old friend. The test is a success, and they also find that the learning potential o
It was a dream come true! Everyone always said they wanted to win the lottery and when it actually happened to him, he thought all their prayers were answered.
How wrong he was! How could the best thing that had ever happened to them be the worst? He longed for his family back, for the happy family they were, he even wanted the hard times back!
No one could pre
Following The Buick Stops Here, Mungo Laird is released from the slammer with every intention of rebuilding his business empire alongside his new friend - he of the dubious financial and pharmaceutical dealings - Dave Ashley-Cole-Cole.
His first problem is to wrestle the bookies business away from his son, Cosmo, and his son's rather dishy intelligent girlfriend, Rayle
Professor Hugh Norris was studying theology with his good friend Bede Murray. He spent two years at the seminary but one day, on a chance piece of advice from one of the lecturers, he decide that a life devoted to religion was not for him. He left to study science instead and rose to prominence for his genome and DNA research.
It's many years later now and Bede is invited to dinner at Hugh
Katy, a city girl through and through, never expected to find herself living on a farm in the middle of nowhere. However, a series of events including an annoying ex-boyfriend made her think that maybe London wasn't such a great place after all and that she should try the peace and tranquillity of the countryside. Katy was soon on a steep learning curve, having met and married Charlie, a farmer with a variety
It is twenty years since Thomas Coverack has worked for British Intelligence - but you never really stop working for them, do you? He is enjoying a quiet summer term as Professor of Literature and War at Merton College, Oxford, when he is once again approached. His instructions are to investigate Henrik Strøm, the ageing founder and president of the Hammerfest Foundation in Norway; a man with an obsessive d
The title says it all!
Love is the golden thread weaving these delightful stories of second chances together.
First, we have Marie Townsend, who meets Sebastian and proves that it is never too late for a heavenly romance!
Charlie Ludlow's tale is the longest with second chances for him and the widowed Eleanor Gatsby. The message here is that no experience,
Following a traumatic start in life after the sudden death of his parents, David Lane slowly turns things around. He becomes a champion for those less fortunate and a spokesman for many good causes, while in the shadows there are those determined to undermine his charitable efforts and destroy his hard-fought reputation.
Deep in the backwoods and badlands of Oregon, there lurk many mysteries.
Can all the prints be of human feet or are they too big? Can there be gold in them there mountains or under the valleys, or is all that just an old joke now? The Indians are long gone and they were no miners, so who made that saucer-shaped hollow in the ground?
Or what?
Fate or Fortunate relates to five real life occurrences that inspired five very different fictitious short stories.
Numbers: Some people live in hope of their lottery numbers coming good, but would that actually make their life complete?
Voices: Sometimes voices in our heads need to be listened to, no matter how strange a request
Life is a series of dramas and, big or small, they should all be remembered.
Pink Gins Under A Mango Tree spans two decades, set in the tropical Gold Coast of West Africa during the colonial days before independence and then in the newly independent Ghana. This is about the life and dramas of a middle-class family, the father, a Dutch Resistance fighter and survivor of Dachau, his strong willed
T.D. Morley continues the story of the lives of the famous rock band, The Peacocks. In a tale wrought with emotion and trauma, the band members must face the toughest challenges of their lives and come face to face with the Devil, who has hunted them for years and refuses to leave them alone. Bent on destroying their happiness, the Devil is unable to rest until his mission is complete.
Elements of the su
